Scammers abound

zoner112012
zoner112012 Posts: 943 Arc User
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Watch out for people with names similar to your faction mates or similar to ones you know telling you to go to sites that you aren't sure of. I would post the names of the sites here but I know that some people would probably go there just to see themselves. The newest site is similar in name to PWEs site but is NOT here so don't go there.
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  • sylenthunder
    sylenthunder Posts: 3,061 Community Moderator
    From way back in 2011......
    darthpanda16 wrote: »
    Hello Boys and Girls,

    To help keep your PWE account, your personal, and financial data safe and out of hackers/spammers/farmers/phishers greedy little stinky mouse clicks, you should heed the following advice:


    1) Make your passwords UNIQUE (not something that you have used anywhere else, ever). Each account for any game or website should ALWAYS BE DIFFERENT. That way if a list of game accounts is **** from another company's games, that same info can not be used to compromise your account.

    2) Use at least 10-14 characters in your password. Mix up letters and numbers. Use capital letters and some English font based symbols if you want.

    3) Do not share your account information with anyone. Not your spouse, louse, house, mouse, cat, dog, best friend, best friend's roommate's girlfriend's parakeet, and especially not your little brother.

    4) Change your password every 3-6 weeks.

    Advice on choosing passwords:
    http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/passwords-create.aspx

    Microsoft's password checker:
    https://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/password-checker.aspx
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  • zoner112012
    zoner112012 Posts: 943 Arc User
    sylenthunder wrote: »
    From way back in 2011......
    darthpanda16 wrote: »
    Hello Boys and Girls,

    To help keep your PWE account, your personal, and financial data safe and out of hackers/spammers/farmers/phishers greedy little stinky mouse clicks, you should heed the following advice:


    1) Make your passwords UNIQUE (not something that you have used anywhere else, ever). Each account for any game or website should ALWAYS BE DIFFERENT. That way if a list of game accounts is **** from another company's games, that same info can not be used to compromise your account.

    2) Use at least 10-14 characters in your password. Mix up letters and numbers. Use capital letters and some English font based symbols if you want.

    3) Do not share your account information with anyone. Not your spouse, louse, house, mouse, cat, dog, best friend, best friend's roommate's girlfriend's parakeet, and especially not your little brother.

    4) Change your password every 3-6 weeks.

    Advice on choosing passwords:
    http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/passwords-create.aspx

    Microsoft's password checker:
    https://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/password-checker.aspx

    I wish people would actually pay attention to these posts...problem is the people that ARE getting scammed don't frequent forums. The people that do come to forums need to be helping out their faction mates and spreading the word.
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  • bankersbucks
    bankersbucks Posts: 6 Arc User
    zoner112012 wrote: »
    I wish people would actually pay attention to these posts...problem is the people that ARE getting scammed don't frequent forums. The people that do come to forums need to be helping out their faction mates and spreading the word.
    Yeah, the peeps that fall for bs like this are typically the ones that are internet stupid.

    They need some form of IQ test to be taken before you sign up for anything on the internets. ;)

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